Green and Gold

This tutorial was written by me on February 10^th 2018.

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

Tube: gg1089 Iona by Keith Garvey

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FTU Scrapkit: Green Gold New Year Kit from Fecnikek

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Template 07 by Yvette at Essence of Creativity

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Mask: WSL4 by Wee Scots Lass

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Font: Seven Swordsmen

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Open Template

Shift D to copy.

Close original

Resize 90% All layers checked

Image – canvas size 645 x 645

Delete credits, and four dotted layers.

This template is slightly off centre, so before I started I centralised all layers by deleting them, and repasting (Ctrl x, then Ctrl v). I renamed them as I went.

I do recommend taking the time to do this, or it may look a little odd.

Layers – new raster layer

Selections – select all.

Paste paper 2 into selection

Deselect

Apply mask

In layers palette – merge group

Stretch to all edges

Duplicate mask and merge both copies together

Element 11

Resize 40%

Paste above mask layer

Slide to top centre

Sharpen

Duplicate – Flip

DO NOT DROPSHADOW

Element 69

Resize 40%

Paste above CIRCLES 2 LAYER

Slide to cover top right circle.

Sharpen

Duplicate – Mirror – Flip

Dropshadow both.

Close template layer

Element 40

Mirror

Resize 40%

Paste above Element 69

Slide to bottom left corner

Erase the 4 shamrocks showing above the rounded rectangles

Sharpen

Duplicate – Mirror – Flip

Dropshadow both

Paper 7

Resize 10% then 90%

Paste above CIRCLES 1 LAYER

Slide to cover top left circle.

Sharpen

Duplicate – Mirror – Flip

Merge both Paper 7 copies together

Click on CIRCLES 1 LAYER

Selections – Select All. Selections – Float. Selections – Defloat

Selections – Invert.

Click on Paper 7 layer and hit delete.

Deselect

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

Close template layer

Element 13

Resize 30%

Paste above CIRCLES 1 LAYER

Slide up and left to sit above the circle.

Sharpen

Duplicate – Mirror – Flip

Dropshadow both

ROUNDED RECTANGLES LAYER

Selections – Select All. Selections – Float. Selections – Defloat

Layers – new raster layer

Fill with colour #4d6a3a

Deselect.

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

Close template layer

Paper 5

Resize 17%

Paste above THIN RECTANGLE LAYER

Click on THIN RECTANGLE LAYER

Selections – Select All. Selections – Float. Selections – Defloat

Selections – Invert.

Click on Paper 5 layer and hit delete.

Deselect

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow.

Close template layer

Element 90

Resize 38%

Paste above the Paper 5 thin rectangle

(It should be perfectly placed)

Erase at sides

Sharpen

Dropshadow

STRIPS

Dropshadow

FRAMES

Paper 4

Resize 15%

Paste below STRIPS LAYER

With magic wand, click in centre of frame only.

Selections – modify – expand 6

Selections – invert.

Click on Paper 4 and hit delete

Deselect.

Paper 3

Resize 15%

Paste above Paper 4 layer

With magic wand, click in right side of frame only.

Selections – modify – expand 5

Selections – invert.

Click on Paper 3 and hit delete

Deselect.

Duplicate – mirror

Click on FRAMES LAYER

Give inner bevel of choice

Dropshadow

Tube

Resize 90%

Paste above FRAMES LAYER and slide up, and left a little

Sharpen

Dropshadow

Add copyright, close white background.

Save as a png.